Press Trust Of India / Chennai/ Bangalore Jan 25, 2012, 00:42 IST
In a stand contradicting Governor H R Bhardwaj’s claim on ending the impasse over Lokayukta soon, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday said, he has not received an official reply from him to any letters on appointing Justice S R Bannurmath for the post. “I had written to the governor on the issue of appointment of Justice Bannurmath as the Lokayukta. I haven’t received a reply from him,” Gowda told reporters here. As the governor has not replied to his letters, Gowda said there was no need for discussing the issue with him.
Gowda’s comments come two days after Bhardwaj’s claim that the Chief Minister had promised to come up with another name after consulting his party leaders. Bhardwaj had also claimed that things had started “moving in the right direction” and he expected the matter to be resolved in seven to 10 days.
The BJP government had recommended former Kerala High Court Chief Justice Bannurmath as successor to former Supreme Court Judge Shivaraj Patil who resigned in October last over a land allotment controversy. Bhardwaj has refused to accept Justice Bannurmath’s name citing reports about similar charges against him while the ruling BJP has been aggressively pushing his case.
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